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FRANZ KLI AND SAMUEL ANDREWS, OF ROCHESTER, NEWI YORK.

Letters .Patent No. 70,440, dated November 5, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN BOOT-CRIMES.

TO ALL WHOM IT MAY OONOERN Be it known that we, FRANZ KLI and SAMUEL ANDREWS, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Boot-Crimps; and wc do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification. i

Figure 1 is a view of our-improved crimp with the leg-block removed andthe screws applied for stretching the leather.

-Figures 2 and 3, views of the loose blocks detached.

Figure 4, a diagram in perspective of the bearing surfaces of the crimp that receives the loose blocks'.

Figure 5 is a modification of fig. l. Y l

Like letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Our invention consists in the employment of a removable heel-block, in connection with the foot and leghlocks, for the purpose of drawing the seam between the leg and foot of the boot further forward or backward, as the case may be; also, in the employment of metal-lined sockets in the side and bottom of the crimp beneath the removable blocks for the insertion and bearing of the screws, when said blocks are not used.

As represented in the drawings,A is the boot-'crimp proper7 which is of the usual form. Instead, however, of making it in a single solid piece, we attach leg and foot-blocks BC, which are connected with the main crimp by dowels a a, fitting in sockets b l. The leg-block is made to fit loosely, so as to be removable at pleasure. Thus arranged the grain of the foot-block crosses the grain of the foot of the crimp, as clearly shown. In the rear end of the foot-blocksmadc a socket of the proper form to receive a small heel-block, I), of the shape indicated in 3, which is also removable from place. 'Iihcilepressions intheleg and heel of the crimp proper are respectively provided with a scriesof sockets or bearings, c eva-nd ec, which l:treliushed or lined with iron to prevent wear. These are for the reception of the ends of thol'screws in stretehn'gthc leather. A special advantage in this arrangement results from the employment of ythe heel-block D. It s/desirable in different kinds and sizes of the boots,fand in diiferentconditions ofthe leather, to stretch the heel portion ofthe leather further forward or backward,as the ease maybe, in order to correspondingly locate the seam of the boot between the foot and leg portion at the heel.l This variation ofthe seamfis necessary toproducc well-fitting boots. The elect is accomplished bythe resting of the screw against the heelvblock, when in place, or against the foot-block, when the heel-block is removed, thus drawing further forward or back. The sockets c c allow the necessary change of position of the screw. The sockets c c of the leg also allow the necessary changes of the screws in that part, as well as the employment of several at once.

In View of the changes in the heel-screw, as above described, it is frequently necessary, also, to make corresponding changes in the leg-screws. In addition to the above special advantages there are others of a more general nature. It is frequently the'case that the leather is so free from wrinkles, and is so pliable, that the employment of the screws is not necessary. In that ease the blocks B O are employed, and the leather is simply drawn over and tacked in the edges of the blocks. In light leather the form shown in iig. 5 may be employed. In ordinary crimps the tacks soon wear out'the edges ofthe wood, especially in the foot portion, where they arc driven endwise in the grain and split out. By the employment of the blocks, as described, the edges may-be replaced by newblocks Without discarding the entire crimp. y The employment of the foot-block obviat-es the driving of the tacks endwise into the grain. Thegrain ofthe foot-block, also, by crossing the foot of thc crimp, strengthens the latter, and prevents splitting by falling or otherwise.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

'lhe heel-block D, for varying the position-of the seam ofthe boot and the metal-lined sockets c ci beneath thc blocks B C' of the crimp for the insertion and adjustment of the screws,the whole arranged and operating as herein set forth.

In witness` whereof we havcihereunto signed our naines in thc presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRANZ K LI, S. ANDREWS.

Witnesses:

It. F. Oscoop,

L. DAVIS. 

